Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that five years after divorce in four-fifths of the 71 families in the study the children had one parent with a new partner and at least one-third had two parents with new partners . |
| 2 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 3 | A friend of hers then revealed that four years earlier Manning had twice raped her . |
| 4 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 5 | She added that 50 years ago society tolerated things that were considered intolerable now and that many of our laws coming up in the social area were the result of pressure from families . |
| 6 | For proof of that , one need only read the CBI 's report which , among other things , stated that recent years have seen ’ a transformation of Britain 's manufacturing base there is now a solid base on which to build . |
| 7 | He showed that five years later the dental health of children in Kilmarnock had deteriorated . |
| 8 | Mrs Ross tells me that she later discovered that several years earlier near Paisley signal box two trains had collided with loss of life . |
| 9 | If the magistrate before whom an accusation of theft was initially brought felt that three years imprisonment was appropriate , he had to commit the case to the Supreme Court . |
| 10 | I later read a book on astrology which told your former lives , and I learned that 2000 years ago I held an important post as a male . |
| 11 | He then remembered that seven years previously an instant coffee machine had been installed in the building where he worked and he had fallen into the habit of having a cup every time he passed it . |
| 12 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
| 13 | Gilbert MacArthur a 64 year old fisherman at Port Charlotte said that 63 years ago [ 1829 ] the village was built by the people who came from Kilchiaran where there were fourteen families , Lossit thirteen or fourteen and Tormisdale " a good number . " |
| 14 | Speaking at a conference in Cambridge , Lord Buxton said that three years of dry weather were not primarily responsible for the lowest groundwater levels since the 1940s . |